Competitions, contents or sweepstakes as they’re known in America, have been around for thousands of years. The Romans were known to make crazy bets with their gladiators and in ancient Greece prizes of medallions were given out to winning victors in the Olympics. Then there was the introduction of lotteries and prizes for literature andContinue reading…

If you’re a person who believes you make your own luck, then isn’t it highly probable you can ‘earn’ it too? Karma, in simple terms can be defined as good or bad luck, viewed as resulting from one’s actions. That is, your actions in the comping world can affect your luck and improve your results.Continue reading…

Can you believe 2017 is here? How did 2016 fly by so fast. After tallying up my prizes for 2016 (all small wins), I’ve realised I want 2017 to be even bigger! Each new year arrives with new competitions, wins and opportunities to connect to fellow compers. We get to swipe the slate clean andContinue reading…

Survey Competitions are becoming increasingly popular. Marketing companies are now offering big prizes and monthly prizes in exchange for your thoughts, tastes and behaviour. All are valuable information in the marketing game. Marketing companies may use your information to taylor products and messaging to target audiences just like yourself. But as a comper areContinue reading…

Everything is so innocent in the beginning. I’ve been on my comping journey for so many years now (Not telling how many years!) and there’s no turning back now. Here hare 4 things I wish I’d never known about competitions: The numbers Before I heard about the ‘numbers’ I was blissfully entering competitions, unawareContinue reading…

There have always been scammers since the dawn of time. Now living in the digital age there has never been a better time to be a scammer. If you’re entering competitions online you probably don’t even think about the information you freely give up and the websites you visit. Emails that make wild claims likeContinue reading…

There are always going to be negative people who don’t understand the compers life and they always seem to be the ones who are the least experienced when it comes to competitions and yet they act like they’re experts! Here’s the advice that those people say and why you should never listen to them! Don’tContinue reading…

Have you ever noticed when you win one prize another appears? Or you have a win and all of a sudden there’s a string of prizes, one after the other. Are you always saying to yourself ‘When it rains, it pours’ and for some reason things seem to happen in three’s, three winning emails orContinue reading…

This post is to win you over about competitions once and for all. Competitions and prizes use to be a total and complete mystery to me. I never could figure out how people won. I would see a competition on Getaway or in a magazine and think ‘I could never win that!’. I thought itContinue reading…

Setbacks are normal in life and just when you thought you were on top of something life throws you a boomerang. We’ve all never been busier and there have never been more competitions to enter and prices to win. It can be hard to fit everything or pick up where you left off. Or sometimesContinue reading…

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Nicole Cappelleri

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Nicole is a writer, blogger and long time comper with her debut novel Confessions of a Comperholic due for release at the end of the year. You can find her at ActivePatience.com. Read more from Jenny here